Ten persons, including six policemen, were injured in protests in Srinagar where the hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had called for a shutdown Friday.
The area where the explosion occurred is close to the civil secretariat complex, where the offices of chief minister, ministers and senior bureaucrats are located.
Militants shot at and killed two on-duty policemen in the busy Qamarwari locality of the summer capital of Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir on Sunday afternoon.
Abdul Gani Dar was shot at three times from a close range with an AK assault rifle, he said, adding two bullets hit him in the chest and one in the shoulder.
The youngest victim of pellet in Kashmir has been discharged from a Srinagar hospital after surgery on her right eye but doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.
A youth was shot dead and another critically wounded, when police opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob in the Nowhatta locality of Srinagar, even as a complete shutdown was observed on Saturday against the Amarnath land transfer agreement.
The police on Saturday detained Independent Member of Legislative Assembly Sheikh Abdul Rashid after he tried to take out a protest march against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public rally in Srinagar.
Fayaz Ahmad Dar, shot himself with his service rifle inside battalion headquarters of Central Reserve Police Force at Chrar-e-Sharief, a police spokesman said.
Eight people, including six civilian passers by and two paramilitary troopers were wounded in a grenade attack in Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon.
A group of miscreants pelted stones on the bus, resulting in head injury to a class 2 student.
At least six persons, including four policemen, were injured in a suspected militant attack in Srinagar near a hospital in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
Two locals were also identified by the police and are believed to be from one of the villages in south Kashmir. Police were trying to corroborate the evidence from the ground, they said.
Fresh clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in Kashmir, even as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit the Valley on Saturday.
The encounter broke out on Saturday morning after the security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area, following inputs about the presence of terrorists there.
One person was killed in a clash between a mob and security forces in downtown Srinagar on Sunday evening, shattering the peace that was by and large witnessed in Kashmir through the day with curfew in force in the capital and two other towns.
Meanwhile, home minister Rajanth Singh said 90 per cent people in J&K keen to participate in panchayat polls.
The bodies have been recovered from the encounter site where the search operation was still in progress
Claiming responsible for the act, the Hai-e-allal Fallah outfit said the shopkeeper was selling narcotics-laced cigarettes and they were 'cleaning the society of such evils'.
A youth was killed and two others were injured when security forces fired at demonstrators in Srinagar.
A civilian was killed in a firing incident at Ganowpora, while two others sustained injuries, a police official said.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
No one was hurt in the incidents which took place within minutes of each other.
"If we (the Kashmiris) don't talk about it (dialogue), who will? Not a Bihari, not a Punjabi," she said.
This time army killed 1 terrorists along the Line of Control in Gurez sector.
The DGP said Jatt's killing, along with one of his associates, was a big success for the security forces.
On a day Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was in the Kashmir Valley where life remained paralysed for the 47th consecutive day, a youth died in a clash with security forces while 18 security personnel, including three officers, were injured in a terrorist attack.
Following the incident, tension gripped the area and all shops have been shut down, the official said.
Mobs defied curfew to indulge in stone-pelting leaving 15 people, including eight security personnel, injured in the incidents.
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